0 in an interesting and exciting way: --
1 in a way that is pleasantly sharp or spicy: --
And she was piquantly desirable: in part because men sought her without success.
The idea was delightfully novel; the girl beautifully audacious; the situation piquantly amusing.
In such a forced union of the ideal and the conventional we are, of course, all the more piquantly reminded of their essential contrast.
Those brown eyes assorted piquantly with his very fair hair.
It is chocolate-color and sharp, piquantly pleasant when hard and dry.
Her lips, still piquantly strange, were offering themselves.
These, the only offspring of the iniquitous dame, were piquantly dressed in the journals for public parade.
Her nose wrinkled piquantly, her lips fell into beguiling curves.
